Module manager: Dr Yolanda Cerda
Email: Y.Cerda@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
English for academic purposes (EAP) work and language education often requires practitioners and lecturers to work with diverse staff and students, and potentially within unfamiliar disciplines. This module will offer the opportunity to engage with theories and debates in the field of intercultural communication applicable to your own teaching and learning contexts, allowing you to reflect on and critically analyse relevant educational settings, using a range of practical examples, policy documents, syllabi, education materials and scenarios.
The aim of this module is to explore the relationship between language, culture and the teaching of English for Academic Purposes or language in various academic contexts. Its aims are to introduce interculturality and intercultural communication and related concepts to the context of higher education or relevant educational contexts and in particular (academic) language classrooms.
Teaching methods will include shared online discussions around weekly topics, written or spoken analyses of authentic scenarios and documentation and ongoing reflection. You will be expected to read widely in order to inform your analyses and deepen your reflections on your own practice or context. Learning activities may include viewing recorded lectures, listening to publicly available online or digital content (eg TED talks or YouTube videos), analysing and commenting on documents or authentic texts (eg classroom transcripts) or scenarios and then having synchronous or asynchronous discussions with peers to compare interpretations. You may be asked to undertake short analytical commentaries and tasks which offer practice in applying or considering different theoretical perspectives in relation to pedagogic practices.
A student who takes this module will be able to
1- Critique the concepts of language, culture, power and identity in higher education or in relevant EAP or language learning contexts
2- Elucidate and critique notions of academic cultures, disciplinary cultures and institutional cultures
Skills Learning Outcomes
3- Apply knowledge of the potential role of intercultural communication
4- Apply conceptualisations of interculturality to language syllabi and / or language pedagogies and practice
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Lectures | 8 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Seminars | 10 | 0.5 | 5 |
| Independent online learning hours | 20 | ||
| Private study hours | 120 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 10 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Formative feedback will be possible throughout the module through a reflective log and a shorter piece of writing to be submitted mid-module.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Essay or Presentation | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
The module will be assessed by means of one extended piece of work which could be written or a visual recorded presentation. Choice is offered so that students can choose what might be of most interest to them, particularly in relation to their own professional contexts (either actual or imagined).
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 03/03/2025
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